Re: loading functions from a shared library

[Steve Kemp]

alex@gnu.org (Alex Schroeder) wrote in message news:<878zd4yuqf.fsf@gnu.org>...
> The following URL has a link to a patch (form Emacs 20 only?) which
> allows Emacs to load functions from a shared library (so/dll).  Thus,
> you would have to patch Emacs only once.  From then on, you could just
> put stuff into your shared libraries instead.
> 
> http://www.gnusoftware.com/Emacs/Dynamic/
> 
> That sound like a good idea.  Shouldn't we add such a thing to Emacs?

  That was code that I wrote, and yes it is for Emacs 20.x only.

  There was some discussion at the time it was released on doing something 
similar, 
 when Emacs 21.x was released.

  However there were plans to be compatible with the XEmacs way of loading 
 dynamic libraries - indeed somebody else made a start in that direction,
 their work is here:

     http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/lsp_tools/ntemacs/dynaload.c

  If this is still desired I'll love to work on it some more..

Steve
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